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World News tagged with women's rights

Afghan Women Still Struggle, 8 Years on
World  (tags: world, women, women's rights, afghanistan )

Katie
- 41 days ago - edition.cnn.com
Afghan women have seen their status rise and fall repeatedly over the past three decades, attaining a measure of equality in the early 1990s before the strictly Islamic Taliban muscled their way to power and forced women to again wear the burqa.
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To Women Around the Globe - What's Women's Equality Day Mean??
World  (tags: Women, women around the world, women's rights, Women's Equality Day, political participation, US, India, Afghanistan, UN Convention on the Elimination of all )

ON VACATI
- 91 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Dr. Massouda Jalal, a CEDPA training alumna who was also the first woman to run for president in Afghanistan in 2004. She summed up the most basic political reality for women in Afghanistan: "Without power, there can be no equality."
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Passes Controversial Law Limiting Women's Rights
World  (tags: government, President Hamid Karzai, afghanistan, Women, human rights, freedoms, middle-east, conflict, violence, dishonesty, lies, Women's rights )

Dee
- 103 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A controversial bill that Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised to review before implementing quietly became law last month, allowing police to enforce language that stipulates a wife's sexual duties and restricts a woman's ability to leave her own home
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Cops Beat Women Protesting Sudan Trouser Ban
World  (tags: government, Sudanese police, abuse, violence, women's rights, protest, HumanRights, conflict )

Dee
- 114 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
KHARTOUM, Sudan-Sudanese police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside a Sudanese court Tuesday during the trial of a female journalist accused of violating the Islamic dress code by wearing trousers in public.
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The Vagina Monologues Take on Kyrgyzstan [Photoessay]
World  (tags: women's rights, human rights, asia, vagina monologues, violence, sexuality, government )

Susty
- 225 days ago - us.oneworld.net
An internationally renowned play about women's bodies, sexuality, and sexual violence recently debuted in Bishek, Kyrgyzstan, seeking to foment dialogue and change on women's rights in Central Asia.
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Chechen President Defends Honor Killings
World  (tags: Chechnya, honor killings, women's rights )

Lindsey
- 268 days ago - iht.com
GROZNY, Russia: The bullnecked president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at the mosque and with chilling composure explained why seven young women who had been shot in the head deserved to die.
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No Day Is "Women's Day" in Gaza
World  (tags: women's rights, Palestine, Gaza )

Lindsey
- 310 days ago - electronicintifada.net
There are many Palestinian women whose suffering the world does not see, because their hell is inflicted on them by fellow Palestinians. One way or another, no day is woman's day in Gaza.
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Gender Apartheid: Where Are the Boycotts?
World  (tags: Gender apartheid, women's rights, Islam )

Lindsey
- 313 days ago - middle-east-online.com
Young girls are left to burn to death in a school fire because they are not suitably attired to be seen in public if rescued. A rape victim is ordered to be whipped 200 lashes and imprisoned six months. Welcome to a few of the horrors of gender apartheid.
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Burma and the Farce of Women's Rights
World  (tags: Burma/Myanmar, Women's Rights )

Ben
- 384 days ago - mizzima.com
When I ask my Burmese friends about women's rights in Burma, they often joke that the Burmese military tortures both women and men equally. In fact, before colonization by the British, Burmese women enjoyed greater property rights and literacy rates...
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Pakistan: Five Women Allegedly Buried Alive
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', HumanRights, humanrights, freedoms, violence, world, pakistan, women, women's rights, crime, petitions )


- 470 days ago - wluml.org
13/08/2008: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a remote area of Balochistan province, that five women were buried alive ....... .....They were punished for trying to decide about their marriages
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Desperate Afghan Women Choose Death By Fire
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', afghanistan, women's rights, women's rights, violence, burning, suicide, society )


- 477 days ago - rawa.org
The Financial Times, August 4, 2008 By Jon Boone in Herat She could not hope for better treatment. But her chances of survival were not good. Dosed with drugs and swaddled in bandages, she had only a small portion of her face visible in the emerg
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Iraqi Mother Who Defied Honour-Killing Father Murdered - Gunned Down On Way To Safety
World  (tags: Iraq, Basra, honour killing, women's rights, daughter, seventeen, father, no remorse, no punishment, brutal, mother, denounced, divorce, beatings, broken arm, hiding, safe houses, reprisals, escape, Jordan, gunned down, street )

Alba
- 541 days ago - guardian.co.uk
5 wks ago Leila Hussein told chilling story of how husband'd killed 17-yr-old daughter over friendship with UK soldier. Now Leila, who'd been in hiding, has been gunned down in cold blood. Fearing reprisals, she'd been in hiding, moving from 1safe house
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End to Afghan Prison Nightmare for Death-Penalty Student Convicted of Downloading Women's Rights Report ?
World  (tags: Human Rights, Afghanistan, young student, Internet, women's rights, web site, Islam, death sentence, torture, confession, no lawyer, fundamentalist groups, Afghan President, Hamid Karzai )

Alba
- 547 days ago - independent.co.uk
Pervez Kambaksh's case has become international cause célèbre with UK ForeignSecr'y & US Secr'y ofState raising his fate with Afghan govt. >100,000 signatures on petition by 'The Independent' readers. Will Karzai free him ? Tortured, no lawyer at trial..
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Saudi Women Appeal for Legal Freedoms
World  (tags: Saudi Arabia, women's rights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', society, freedoms )

Elisa
- 583 days ago - independent.co.uk
In Riyadh, the college day begins for female students behind a locked door that will remain that way until male guardians come to collect them.
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Thousands of Missing Teenagers: Britain Getting Concerned About Forced Marriages - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
World  (tags: Women's Rights, UK, World, forced marriage )


- 608 days ago - spiegel.de
A new study has found that the practice of forced marriage among immigrants in Britain is much more common than previously assumed. Thousands of young girls -- and boys -- have gone missing, many of whom might have been abducted by their own parents.
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